Airdrie brushed aside

Inverness Caledonian Thistle moved to within a point of league leaders Dundee tonight after an emphatic 4-0 victory over relegation candidates Airdrie Utd. Dundee could only manage a point against QOS despite having a man advantage for 74 of the 90 minutes. Inverness Caledonian Thistle moved to within a point of league leaders Dundee tonight after an emphatic 4-0 victory over relegation candidates Airdrie Utd. 

Dundee could only manage a point against QOS despite having a man advantage for 74 of the 90 minutes.

Its +4 to our goal difference as we tore apart Airdrie this evening with a final score of 4-0, although as the stats suggest, it could have been at least six or seven and with Dundee being held to a 1-1 draw with QoS at Dens we are now one point off of the top of the league.

We're coming to get you!

 We showed that we were determined not to repeat our boring 0-0 draw with County on Saturday when Richie Foran threaded the ball through to Rooney but the red-hot striker couldn’t find a way past Robertson in the Airdrie goal. He did though. Just two minutes later Jonny Hayes whipped in a low cross that Foran helped towards goal with an acrobatic overhead kick, ex-ICT man Tom Parrat failed to clear off the line leaving Rooney to bundle over the line for possibly the worst goal you will ever see! Spaniard Danni Sanchez could and should have doubled our lead midway through the first half some good play from David Proctor who eventually nodded through to Sanchez who, unmarked, somehow managed to clip the outside of the far post as it rolled out for a goal kick, the first of a host of chances squandered by him during the game. We can always rely on our Irish trio to grab us the goals and it was Foran who got it, Hayes picked up in the centre circle before driving forward twenty yards, when the defender came to him he neatly played in to Russell Duncan who slid in Foran to slam home his eighth league goal of the season past the despairing Robertson.

HALF TIME: ICT 2-0 AIRDRIE UTD

The first attack of the second half brought a third goal to cheer about, a corner from Hayes was swung into the six yard box where captain Grant Munro Grant hit a controlled volley with the outside of his left foot after the ball bounced high across the penalty box and was missed by the Airdrie defenders. The second chance for Sanchez came six minutes after the third goal, some great link up play between Rooney and Hayes on the right ended in a Rooney cross that found an unmarked Sanchez who promptly... missed from five yards.

One more from him? Okay. Ross Tokely played a magnificent ball down the line to Foran who drilled a low, powerful cross into the six yard box and quite unbelievably, Sanchez managed to strike the bar.

Outstanding. The only word for the save made by Robertson on 62 minutes. A similar structure to the third goal, a corner from Hayes found Munro who boomed his header towards the top corner only for Robertson to emulate Mikey Fraser’s save against Celtic a few years ago. The ball came back out to Duncan who beautifully slid in Rooney but he could only get a slight touch on the ball as Robertson gathered the ball with ease. With 20minutes to play ICT broke extremely quickly, Sanchez bombing up the left flank, ignoring Rooney who was screaming for the ball to be squared, before eventually squaring, finding Hayes, but he just couldn’t find his feet and the shot was blocked on the line. Hayes rounded off an impressive team performance with seven minutes to play, a good pass from Duncan again found Hayes who cut inside before curling towards goal, landing in the bottom corner for, like Foran, his eighth league goal of the season.

Morton match winner Nick Ross made an appearance from the bench and he had the chance to make it five for ICT, an incisive break, a long ball from sub Robert Eagle into Ross, but he just couldn’t slot past Robertson.

FULL TIME: ICT 4-0 AIRDRIE UTD 

All in all, it was an impressive performance from our lads making it thirteen unbeaten and lifting our goal difference to +21, by far the best in the league. Promotion has gone from looking impossible just a few weeks ago and now, we feel we can beat anyone.